Sentences with phrase «without precedent»

This integrated approach is not without precedent in the education space.

Simply put, these proposals are completely without precedent in the entertainment industry and we believe they are reckless and ill - advised.

Of course, this isn't entirely without precedent.

The word literally means without precedent, and properly refers to events that are unique and never happened before.

What he fails to understand, however, is that football is no normal business and it is capable of operating at a legal and moral level wholly without precedent in the modern world.

Its creation ups the ante in a conservation phenomenon without precedent on land or sea.

The expiration of mayoral control is nearly without precedent.

This initiative is without precedent nationally and demonstrates the state's evolving commitment to building healthier and humane school communities.

The idea of an origin is problematic for a number of reasons, one being that it would seem to suggest a starting point without precedent and, of course, that's impossible.

He makes it very clear that this is not part of any cycle but a completely unique occurrence without any precedent.

This is not something I «made up» for tiny houses without precedent.

And all of this occurred under the glare of a media spotlight without precedent.

That's interesting, but certainly not without precedent.

This is really asking a lot of an «8 - bit game», but it's not entirely without precedent.

And this should give any reasonable person — and society — concern about the consequences of forcing the climate into a state that is without precedent in modern society.

While the current level is definitely elevated, it's by no means without precedent.

The flavors of salted soy and fermented savory - sweet isn't totally without precedent for the use explored here... soybean powder (kinako) is often used in conjunction with a sweet fermented soy sauce syrup on grilled mochi in Japan, and the same sauce is used over sweet kanten in some traditional Japanese summer desserts.

TORONTO STAR: Jagmeet Singh's Attachment to a Sikh Political Issue Not Without Precedent for Settlers Before Him (Opinion)

It is hardly without precedent that God uses even their enemies to discipline His wayward people.

At the time it was described as a «supreme act of philanthropy», welcomed by Gordon Brown and by Sir Nicholas Serota, now head of the Arts Council England, who said the act of «imaginative generosity» was «without precedent anywhere in the world».

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War came home to children as a set of events without precedent, spectacular and terrifying by turns.

It is impossible to imagine contemporary art without the precedents set by the artists in this presentation, including Jean - Michel Basquiat, Agnes Martin, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol.

«In particular, while the Internet and social media give rise to issues involving copyright, trademark, defamation and employment law (just to name a few), courts are still working to apply existing laws — many of which were enacted long before the Internet — to these unfamiliar contexts, and to interpret newly enacted laws without any precedent to guide them.»

As William C. Agee writes, Noland built on the legacy of Cézanne and Matisse and, by 1960, «had become a primary force in the development of abstract art... by exploring ways of colour painting virtually unimaginable, and often without precedent.»

But Skreber's car crashes would be unthinkable without the precedent of the American sculptor John Chamberlain, who has been mangling automobile parts and presenting them as sculpture for half a century.

Moiseev also reportedly revealed that the anticipated legislation will contain so many terms and concepts without precedent in Russian law, that progress in drafting it may prove slow.

Nevertheless, practically, Reagan does not respect the budgetary discipline; On the contrary, he goes into an armament race without precedents, that implies huge military expenses provoking a public deficit bigger than those known under any other President.

The goal here is to show how Jesus received a soteriological importance without precedent.

Furthermore, seeing a road team favored after two straight losses is really without precedent.

Earlier on this week, the head of public - sector union UNISON, Dave Prentis, used belligerent and class - war rhetoric to call for «a campaign for strike action without precedent».

Yes, it's true nobody is listening to Labour now: that's no surprise when the country is rocked by the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s and a political scandal without precedent in living memory.

That's because a trial like this one is almost without precedent in modern medical research: It involves giving children a vaccine that is almost certain not to benefit them, and that might harm them, all to protect other children from an unlikely scenario — a large - scale anthrax attack.

[Gavin L. Foster, Dana L. Royer and Daniel J. Lunt, Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years]

The life cycle of the virus and the logistics of AIDS vaccine testing make HIVa foe without precedent

Darting confidently between genres to subvert our expectations at every turn, The Killing of a Sacred Deer firmly cements Lanthimos in the pantheon of world - class auteurs and marks him as a cinematic provocateur without precedent.

If it's not quite without precedent (only this year «Nymphomaniac «followed a similar pattern, but was always conceived as such), then it's pretty remarkable.

All that power goes through a customised GT seven - speed PDK gearbox, and there's a new titanium exhaust system which weighs less and is said to deliver an «emotional sound without precedent ``.

This is a serious mess in the process of «evolution» with our governments standing by permitting whatever seems to be unfolding, and laws, often still without precedent and non-existent because we have never faced these complexities before.

This would not be without precedent with the Wii U as the most recent example.

It's a console experience without precedent, save for maybe its predecessor flOw.

The American painter Alice Neel, near contemporary of Bourgeois, remains without precedent as a portraitist of marvellously awkward insights.

Since its inception in 1912 by Picasso and Braque, collage has undergone many formal transformations, yet it has remained a corollary to painting... Marca - Relli... developed it as a complete pictorial system essentially without precedent in modern art.»

For Neel's kind of portrait must have seemed more or less without precedent and still does.

This is without precedent at the College, and is an extraordinary indication of the full community involvement, commitment, and determination the Plan has enjoyed — from the faculty through the staff, students, administrators, and trustees.

The settlement of the case leaves those in the copyright law field without precedents that might have been set had the case continued.